evolution: A Client for 'Evolution Cloud API'

Provides an 'R' interface to the 'Evolution API' <https://evoapicloud.com>, enabling sending and receiving 'WhatsApp' messages directly from 'R'. Functions include sending text, media (image/video/document), audio, stickers, geographic locations, contacts, polls, interactive lists and button messages. Also includes number verification and structured CLI logging for debugging.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports: httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), cli (≥ 3.6.0), jsonlite, base64enc
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown
Published: 2026-02-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.evolution
Author: Andre Leite [aut, cre], Hugo Vasconcelos [aut], Diogo Bezerra [aut]
Maintainer: Andre Leite <leite at castlab.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/StrategicProjects/evolution/issues/
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/StrategicProjects/evolution/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: evolution results

Documentation:

Reference manual: evolution.html , evolution.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: evolution_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: evolution_0.0.1.zip, r-release: evolution_0.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: evolution_0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): evolution_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): evolution_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): evolution_0.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): evolution_0.0.1.tgz
Old sources: evolution archive

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